Posted on 06/22/2017 7:27:22 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Jon Ossoff’s loss in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional election on Tuesday isn’t just a disappointment for liberals. It’s a bright red warning sign, a blaring siren that should alert Democrats everywhere that they will not take back Congress without a radical change in direction.
It looked to some like the party could retake at least one branch in Congress in 2018 just by staying the course. “I don’t think Democrats want a new direction,” House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on CBS Face the Nation the week after the election.
But since then, Democrats have lost four straight special elections in races for Congress. Top party leaders are defending those losses as representing improvements on the party's baseline. But they at least to appear to suggest that winning the House will be harder than it first seemed. And panic is beginning to seep in.
Pelosi is too toxic, Rep. Filemon Vela of Texas, first elected to Congress in 2012, told Vox on Wednesday.
“To me it’s real simple: The perception of leader Pelosi is so negative that we are not going to be able to walk away from that,” Vela said. “In order to take the House majority back you have to be able to win swing districts ... the perceptions of the leader are so entrenched, they’re not going to change, and the Republican Party is going to continue to spend millions and millions of dollars to tie the leader, who is very unpopular, to those areas.”
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
The DNCe have proven themselves to be losers to the GOPe in the war between the Uniparties.
Donald Trump tossed his hat in the ring to support RINO Karen Handel even though she was not so supportive of him until the end. Handel’s victory was due to Trump’s support.
Will Handel support President Trump or prefer to be a Paul Ryan RINO leadership supporter?
The D’s are on the ropes versus the R’s but call me when the A’s as in “Americans” are running for office.
Then I’ll care about elections more.
“that they will not take back Congress without a radical change in direction.”
Maybe the Democrats pre-Obama, but this isnt a political party in the traditional sense anymore now that SJWs are old enough to vote, and are as crazy as ever.
The Dems must now cater to the mental nitwits of Tumblr and their 79 genders, and trans-whatever-isms. The average voter in a swing district of old will look at even a RINO and see sanity.
they may actually fix their electoral problem now. I almost wish that they had won ga06. it would have possibly been better for us in the long run.
The party has gone so far to the left that many moderates and even liberals don’t want to vote for Democrats anymore.
well, now that the Russian conspiracy nonsense has fallen flat on its face, looks like the Dems need another scapegoat, because thank goodness they’ll never look at themselves in a mirror and notice the real problem.
Looks like they gonna trow san fran nan under de bus, and that’ll solve ALL de problems, right bro?
not a chance. Nancy is not the evil strategist that’s losing all of their elections. Nancy doesn’t run the DNC. But hey, whom am i to complain if they want to throw her under the bus?
it’s actually funny as shite! Oh, wait, it’s not the Russians’ fault after all, it’s NANCY’S fault!
“How about a Patriotic, red blooded, American veteran, that goes to church, loves God and his family”
ROTFLOL!
You’re such a kidder, dude! Such a kidder!
Why not? The old guard Dems rejected Clinton in 2007, and turned their party over to a virtually unknown up-and-comer named Barack Obama, whose radical brand of leftist idealism they liked better.
Kamala Harris shares his hard left, progressive ideology, and is following in his footsteps. She's a good fit for the radical fringe that has taken over the Democrat party. I think she'd get a lot of support from the party if she ran.
“I don’t know why they would panic. They lost elections in four safe Republican seats. Panic would be in order if they had lost elections in four safe Democrat seats.”
exactly. this “panic” nonsense is just more fake news manufactured by the fake news media, based on comments by a few of the whiniest, weak-sister Dems.
It’s greater than a 100% certainty that President Trump does not post here or any website. #1 it isn’t secure and #2 his Twitter account is verified and secured by Twitter and White House protocols. His point of view is very similar to most conservatives on a range of issues, so of course his tweets come across as if they could have been written by FReepers. It’s a logical coincidence, nothing more.
“The very fact EVERY Establishment Media outlet is strongly criticizing the Democratic Party tells me only one thing: the ossified leadership of the Democrats in Congress needs to go.”
it’s certainly a signal one way or the other.
either the enemedia is ordering THEIR Dem party to toss the old guard, or the old guard Dems have lost their grip on the enemedia and some group of young Dem rebels are now telling the enemedia what to publish, pretty much like when the rebels “liberate” the TV stations in banana republics, and the rebel winners order the TV stations to change their propaganda from the old guard’s propaganda to the new guard’s propaganda.
” The problem isn’t Pelosi. The problem is that they all publicly sound and think like her, so what difference if she is gone? “
spot on. makes no difference at all. Nancy is just the Dems next scapegoat. russian conspiracy didn’t work, so they’re casting about for something else to blame, anything but actually looking in the mirror.
Rachel Madcow was blaming the rain for the Rat loss Tuesday. What she doesn’t know is that Trump controls the weather.
Love it.
ALL of it.
They just don’t get it.
Let’s not get consumed with hubris in the face of success. Hubris is deadly because it makes you overconfident and therefore vulnerable. It also makes your enemies more determined.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, ya got me...
Rat Commies will never give up power.
The solution for dems is a continuation of their past policy; i.e., lie, lie, lie - announce that black is white, up is down - and here, that you’ve gotten rid of Pelosi. But in reality keep her in the wheelhouse, out of sight, behind the trash can or spittoon, say. (Sorry, don’t know much about wheelhouses.)
You know if this is coming from VOX, the panic has ALREADY set in.
Good, let the panic attacks overcome them.
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